Stuart Berkowitz

Expertise: Extensive DoD experience – principal investigator on contracts with Navy, Air Force, DARPA, and NIST. Won, managed, and transitioned over $30 million in SBIR projects; and has transitioned technology through Phase II.5, SAT/CPP, and RIF. Co-authored over 35 technical publications and awarded two patents. Being a hands-on Founder, he is intimately familiar with all aspects of government contracting as a small business, including government accounting and how to survive a DCAA audit.

Paul Bozzo

Education: B.S. in Information Technology, and M.B.A with Finance Concentration from California State University, Fresno.

Expertise: Working with entrepreneurial ventures to refine their business model, create an investment-driven business plan and prepare an effective funding presentation. He also advises CEOs and founding teams on these common start-up issues: legal entity selection, equity financing structures, financial forecasting and exit strategies.

Reena Jadhav

Expertise: Entrepreneur, investor and startup coach with a passion for disruptive ideas that transform the human experience and create meaningful lasting change. Ms. Jadhav has founded and worked at five startups in mobile messaging, voice recruiting, marketing platform, community platform and loyalty rewards. She has deep experience in identifying fundable game changing ideas, prototyping, team building, fundraising, market launching award winning products, business model innovation and revenue generation.

Jeff Smith

Industries: High technology sales, marketing, business development, and corporate development.

Education: Boston College, MBA from Southern New Hampshire University and Masters in International Business from Thunderbird.

Expertise: Jeff was most recently with RBM Technologies, a leading cloud based retail software company that was successfully sold. Prior to RBM, Jeff was the Founding and Managing Partner of XcelR8 Partners that provided business development consulting services to accelerate revenue traction for early stage companies.